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Intertribal Buffalo Council

“Restore buffalo to Indian Country for cultural, ecological, and economic purposes.”

Home groundRapid City, SD
Founded1992
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The work

What they do

Tribal coalition working to restore bison to tribal lands and coordinate with federal agencies on bison management in and around national parks and refuges.

How they run

Small and lean

We don’t hold a detailed federal filing for this group. Groups this size often file the short form or run below the IRS reporting line, so there’s no budget or crew to show here, and that’s no knock: some of the sharpest local defense in the country runs this way.

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Their ground

ITBC is not on our editors’ record for a threatened place yet. See every threatened place on one map, and who stands for each.

Where and what
Works onnational parks · wildlife · tribal sovereignty
Federal landsNational Park Service · Fish & Wildlife Service · Bureau of Land Management
Active inSouth Dakota · Montana · Wyoming · North Dakota · Oklahoma · Nebraska · Colorado · New Mexico
Who writes the rules where they work

Across the 8 states where they work, the congressional delegations average 30 of 100 on public lands. See the full scorecard

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Ways in

How to help

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